Check in, get naked: the destination hotel bathroom | | Photo: Courtesy of Equinox Hotels | | When it comes to hotel bathrooms, designers are increasingly blurring the lines between where the bedroom ends and the bathroom starts – resulting in a richer, more joined-up experience for the user. | | Ablution solutions: residential bathrooms up the design ante | | Whether in Brazil, Japan or Canada, residential bathrooms come in as many unique forms as there are unique owners, but increasingly they are united by a sense of spatial connectedness with their respective surroundings. | | | | 7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TODAY’S OFFICE: PALMBERG | | It’s time for a reset. Made-in-Germany office-furniture manufacturer PALMBERG has produced seven short films to encourage us to rethink the workplace. It’s time for more tolerance, more individuality and more joy in the office! (Story in German only) | | A strong brand needs a strong presentation: Premium Italian furniture brand MAXALTO has transformed a Parisian townhouse into a home, with pieces from its latest collection. | | THE MOTHER OF (RE)INVENTION: FDB MØBLER | | Traditional Danish brand FDB MØBLER is experiencing a rebirth – stylishly reworking some its furniture classics from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and giving them a 21st-century twist. | | | EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH: OKAY.III FROM KÖNIG + NEURATH | | Changing places – and therefore chairs – during the working day has become a completely normal thing. One particularly flexible member of the team is the OKAY.III office chair from KÖNIG + NEURATH, which automatically adapts to each of its users. | | ON A ROLL: REGENT LIGHTING | | Swiss lighting specialists REGENT LIGHTING's new rollable diffuser RUN+ finally makes uninterrupted, joint-free lighting planning possible. Nothing's going to stop us now. | | DESIGN CENTER’S FOCUS OPEN: THE HANDS-ON DESIGN AWARD | | The DESIGN CENTER BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG’s Focus Open jury don’t mind getting their hands dirty. Before handing over any prizes, all entries will have been not only seen but touched, tested and tried out. | | | | | Beauty flourishes on large-size tiles Meet the largest white-body wall tile: Bloom by FAP Ceramiche. The wallpaper-effect collection – available in the brand-new 80x160 cm size - can be used to create walls with surprising 3D graphics and as few joints as possible. Discover more on fapceramiche.com. | | Gallery House, La Pobla de Cérvoles by Raul Sanchez | | The Gallery House – originally an old house located in the small town of La Pobla de Cérvoles, in Lleida, Catalonia – was developed by the owners of the nearby Mas Blanch i Jové winery who renovated it in order to accommodate the growing number of visitors to the winery. Each of its bathrooms is rendered in a different colour, highlighted by the joint between ceramic tiles, the painting of the walls, and the colour of the sinks. | | Bathrooms in living spaces | | Established in 2008, Waterfrom Design straddles both the interior design and the architecture fields, believing that design should be like water, simple and pure, organic and ever-changing, retaining the simple, neatness of water’s essence. | | As part of our monthly giveaway, this month you can win one of four M1-Frame desk bureaus from VARIO! | | Events The Ides of March... | | Collectible, Brussels, BE 5–8 March 2020 | | Architect@work, Bilbao, ES 11–12 March 2020 | | Münchner Stoff Frühling, Munich, DE 12–15 March 2020 | | And want to advertise in a future issue? | | | | |